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Pathogen samples, genetic codes and patient records: the hidden currency of America’s new health deals. Zambia refused to pay it, and still got its money. The Caribbean should take note.
MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA, October 6, 2026, Calvin G Brown | - Strip away the diplomatic language and the Trump regime’s “America First” health deals come down to a simple trade: American money for African biology. Th...
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ETHIOPIA again demands access to the Red Sea as tensions with neighbors escalate
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed reiterated on Monday that his landlocked country must have access to the Red Sea, despite neighboring countries saying at a summit Sunday that responsibility for the sea rests with states along its shores and warning of the risk of regional conflict.
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ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA | Two Resolutions, One Retreat: How the Opposition Forced Browne's Hand on Washington's Deportee Deal
The Government now claims it was fighting for Antigua and Barbuda all along. The paper trail says otherwise — and the same doublespeak now shadows the fate of the Citizenship by Investment Programme.
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ST JOHNS, Antigua and Barbuda - October 6, 2026 | For eleven months, Prime Minister Gaston Browne negotiated with Washington over receiving third-country nationals, peo...
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Four more people were killed in Caribbean waters on Sunday. Washington will not say where, will not say who, and will not show what. Our fisherfolk – and our governments – deserve better than a press release without coordinates.
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, October 5, 2026 -Calvin G Brown | Somewhere in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday, October 4, a small boat burst into flames and four human beings ce...
DIASPORA | Laotian Freed After 14 Months — But Caribbean Deportees Remain in Eswatini, Africa's Last Absolute Monarchy
Phone Chomsavanh's release from Eswatini's Matsapha prison closes one chapter of the Trump regime's third-country deportation scheme. For the Caribbean men flown to the same cells, the story is far from over.
MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA, October 5, 2026 - On Sunday, Phone Chomsavanh walked out of the Matsapha Correctional Complex, a maximum-security prison near Mbabane, after more than 14 ...
DIASPORA | Carrot, Cudgel and the Closing Door: The Fading Mystique of the US Visa
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MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, October 5, 2026 - Calvin G Brown | Stand on Old Hope Road before the sun has cleared the Blue Mountains and you will see it:...
CARIBBEAN | The Children Left Behind: Caribbean Families in the Crosshairs of America’s Third-Country Removals
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